PSYCHOLOGICAL KINSHIP, SOCIAL SUPPORT, AND STRESS: INTERRELATIONSHIPS IN A POPULATION OF PSYCHIATRIC NURSES.
Contributors: Virginia Commonwealth University.
Published: 1994
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Psychology, Clinical.
Description: This study investigated the relationship between psychological kinship and both social support and stress. Participants were 130 psychiatric nurses employed at three hospitals in and near Richmond, Virginia. Participants completed the Revised Kinship Scale using four stimulus people (mother, friend, supervisor, and patient), the Social Provisions Scale (SPS) and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). Neither of the canonical correlations designed to assess hypothesized relationships between the kinship variables and the various SPS and MBI subscales was significant but both approached significance at the $p < .05$ level. A post hoc principal components analysis conducted on the kinship variables established two clear factors from the four target people rated: a kin factor (mother, friend) and a non-kin factor (supervisor, patient). When canonical correlations were re-computed using these two new variables, they were both significant at the $p < .05$ level. The fairly complex pattern of results was discussed along with suggestions for further research into psychological kinship.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-05, Section: B, page: 2015.

Thesis (PH.D.)--VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY, 1994.

School code: 2383.